A woman recently reported that she had
unwittingly purchased small pieces of
rolled up paper sold to her as rice on
the streets of China.
Ms Cai, from the Guangdong
province, a coastal region of south-
east China, claims she was eating
lunch with her family when she bit
into a tightly rolled piece of paper
that was disguised in a bowl of
cooked rice.
‘The rice we ate felt no different than
usual, until half way through the
meal I chewed onto an unusually
hard piece of rice,’ she told Chinese
newsmen.
According to Daily Mail, quoting the
Chinese media, Ms Cai reportedly
pulled the grain out of her mouth and
was shocked when it unrolled into a
small piece of paper.
The paper appears to have been
twisted at the ends to take the shape
of a grain of rice.
According to reports, Ms Cai bought
the rice from a street vendor who had
a$$ured her the rice was grown
naturally, without any pesticides.
Cai told local police she bought the
rice from a street hawker who
promised they were grown in the
countryside in a “very
environmentally friendly” way
“without any pesticides.”
Hong Kong Free Press reports that the
woman and her family had been
buying rice from the same hawker
since the beginning of this year.
HKFP adds that the seller is unlikely
to get caught because street hawkers
are very mobile and Cai did not get a
receipt when buying the rice, Shantou
Metropolis Daily said.
The fake rice phenomenon has been
in China for a while. Some of the
reports indicate that the fake rice is
sometimes made from a mixture of
plastic and potatoes.
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